Sometimes I stick only to my old favourite cakes because when I bake them I know they taste good, but sometimes trying out something new is great, too. Like with the recipe I share with you today. It is a chocolate cheesecake with pears. Delicious!

Leave the pears to drain in a sieve. Melt 160 g of butter in a pot. Put the flour, cocoa powder and 125 g of sugar into a bowl and mix it. Now add 2 tablespoons of water, the egg yolk and the melted butter and knead the dough so that you get streusels. Take a spring-clip tin, cover the ground with baking parchment and grease the rest of the tin. Now put 2/3 of the streusels into the tin and press it until you have a nice base for your cake.
Now chop the chocolate coating and put it into a little bowl. Take a pot with a bit of hot water and place the bowl into it. Now heat the water but do not let it boil. Stir the chocolate now and then and it will melt nicely. In the meantime, mix 50 g of butter with the brown sugar in another mixing bowl. Then add, one after the other, the eggs. Now take one more mixing bowl and put into it the quark. Stir the quark, add the chocolate pudding powder and stir it in. Now you add the melted chocolate to the butter-sugar-eggs-mix and stir it in, too. Then you also add two tablespoons of the quark-mix. Now you can stir in all of the butter-mix into the quark. Now take 1/3 of this cream and put it onto the cake base. Onto this you put the pears you cut into pieces and then add the rest of the cream.
Preheat the oven (150°C, fan-assisted oven). Now put the cake into the oven for 20 minutes, then cover the cake with the rest of the streusels and put it into the oven for another 30 minutes.
Serve the cheesecake with cream!